The Syntax Of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
With a war within a whole country between two appendages from the same body, it took incredible patience and the right choice of words to create unity once more. On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln had a strong grip on where to go and how to fix the United States in his Second Inaugural Address that didn’t exclude anyone in the U.S. when he alliterated and reiterated the words of unity and mixed in subliminal persuasions of ending the Civil War.
Even when being a President of a powerful nation, Lincoln did not succumb to “Me" and “I"'s and, in fact, only refers to himself once in his address when he “trusts” that their “progress…is…reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all” letting the listeners know that this isn’t about him but everyone as a country (Lines 11-14). He does not even really point fingers and say specifically who did or wanted what, and claimed that “All knew that [slavery] was somehow the cause of the war” annihilating the......
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